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Submitted by C Rother
Hey, remember these?
Let’s face it, the Pound Puppy didn’t do a whole lot except look cute. It was, after all, a stuffed animal-and who, unless they are a complete Grinch- doesn’t love a stuffed animal? But the Pound Puppy wasn’t JUST a toy-there was a movie, TV special, AND a cartoon series. That was one busy dog.
Pound Puppy cartoon after the jump.
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i had like a zillion pound puppies, ok maybe not that many, but alot. between me and my two sisters our house was a dog pound!
I still have the Pound Puppy my 30 year old daughter got when she was little, then passed on to her younger brother. If nothing else I guess they were durable.
My sister and I also had the mean Pound Puppies. Does anyone else remember these?
They were a bit larger than the original, stiffer, and they had folds over their eyes and lips so you could make them nice or mean when you wanted to, by folding down their eybrows and folding up their lips to show their teeth.
I think they were called… Pound Meanies? Can anyone help me out here?
OK, it just came to me.They weren’t Pound Puppies at all – they were called Pooch Patrol.
false alarm!
It’s a good thing people usually ignore me.
umm… thos toys you foun ther not pound meanies ther pooch patrol
There was also pound kitties.
We had the whole collection from kittens to cats and puppies to dogs
Were the cat ones called Pound Purries? I can’t remember. But i did have like 6 of them!! They were like the precursor to beanie babies!
Pound Purries! I had one of them! I think my sister has it now… you’re right, sunny, they’re very durable…
I HATED those things, they used to scare me.
Pound Puppies were (and are) still more than that! They’re still very popular here, and I am proud to say that the creator of pound puppies is from my city. Much of the proceeds of PP go to animal shelters like the one I work at.
An inventive idea by a nice guy.
I still have my puppies. ^_^
I had one little set of these, with the mommy dog, and then these various little puppies. I loved it. Played with them for hours.
I think that was what I had! :O
Bit of trivia! Apparently, all the old cartoon makers had a very limited pool of people they could get for voice actors. Cooler was voiced by Dan Gilvezan, who also did the voice of Spider-man from Spider-man and His Amazing Friends, Brick Bradley aka Bugman on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Bumblebee and Hotshot (and the Deception Snapdragon) from Transformers. The guy who played Captain Slaughter on the featured cartoon was Peter Cullen, who voiced a virtual menagerie of characters in the 80s and 90s, and in fact still continues to today. Along with perhaps hundreds of guest rolls, he is perhaps best known as Optimus Prime from Transformers, old cartoon and new movie and Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. I had the pleasure of meeting both Dan Gilvezan and Peter Cullen at BotCon 04, the Transformer fan convention, and they are both AWESOME individuals who love their fan base.
BlueShimmer.. That is just AWESOME!!!
i still have all of my PP and PK too..lol
I still have my pound puppy. It was given to me on my 1st birthday, and here 26 years later I still have it. It’s in damn good shape for having traveled everywhere with me. Did I say everywhere. Yes I did. Like when I joined the Army and went to Iraq, he was strapped to the top of my rucksack. Everywhere I went, he went. He is my best stuffed friend and I have no shame in admitting it.
Yay! I miss my Pound Puppies and Kitties. Anyone remember that Pound Puppies movie they had? I loved it.
I loved my Pound Puppies! I think they’re still in my parents’ house somewhere. My kids have the movie on DVD now. I remember watching the cartoon all the time with my PP next to me. My brothers had a few between them too. These things are great!
I had a few of those when I was younger, I may still have mine somewhere in the attic. Mine was some sort of spaniel like one with hairy ears and a bunch of hair accessories. I got a video with it too it was two episodes one about a little puppy who then got really big and I don’t remember the rest except for some evil cat named Coughgut I think.
I was totally obsessed with PP and PK when I was a kid; I had tons of ‘em. My bed and every available space in my room were covered with ‘em.
Hell, I even put a couple of ‘em in the back window of my first car when I was 16! I think they all eventually went where all my toys that I’d outgrown went to, my cousin, the only other girl in our family besides me.
And I had PP sheets that were always on my bed and even went with me to summer camp every year LOL And they lasted a really long time too. I eventually had to get a second set because the first set wore out, but that was after I’d had the first set for ages.
I remember having a PP radio. It was cute, but unfortunately the bottom wasn’t soft and it only got AM.
I had a Pound Puppy and a Pound Purrie (cat), but they were the small sized ones. And we used to watch the TV show on the Saturday morning cartoons.
PP’s are coming back. I just saw some on the shelf at Target the other day. But like most 70’s and 80’s toys they bring back, I bet the quality sucks.
Have you checked out the new popples? I bought the yellow one (potato chip) because that’s the one I had when I was a kid. I was so disappointed
The new popples have weird ears, make noise and don’t really fit in their pouch.
I wish they would bring back the toys BUT that they were the same quality and the same as what it was in the 80s. New and improved is not always the best.
Totally. Have you seen the new, ’sexy’ my little ponies. They have make up and eyelash extensions. :/
Still have my dark brown Super Pound Puppy…
Dammit, clicked the button too soon, that’s supposed to be me, not anonymous.
Yeah, I had tons of these things, and watched the TV show. Happy memories. Wish kids these days had anything near as awesome as I had in the late 80s, early 90s.
These cute toys are still around. I see them in Woolworths and, as Allison mentioned above, Target, and I’m sure you could find them elsewhere as well. I have always wanted a PP, but never really got one. They have such soft, silky fur, and there are so many different breeds! so many, infact, you want to buy them all!
Does anyone else think the part of the commercial where the little girl jumps out of a cake for a boy seem a tad….I don’t know….weird?
Does anyone remember the year that Hardee’s restaurants had them at Christmas time? They were small versions of the bigger ones. It seemed like everyone got some for Christmas that year, they were little and cute.
I had a brown and white one, my sister had a gray one. I remember watching the cartoons, and reading the books, because, lets face it, nothing aimed at children in the 80’s came in only one format.
Lol.
Tonka Went From Manly Dump Trucks To Cute Puppies.
I had Puppies and Purries, and also Bunnies and Tigers. My sister and I were collecting the mini critters while we were collecting Beanie Babies. Our Pound Critters got to do everything… camping trips, wagon rides, cave exploring (under the bed), and we even had them attend school (where the Beanie Babies were the teachers).
That reminds me of when our Teenie Beanie Babies (the kind you got in McDonalds Happy Meals) had their own clubhouse lovingly constructed of cardboard, with secret passcodes logged in a tiny book for each member.
My sister and I had a LOT of time on our hands as kids!
Good times.
When I was in 1st grade I attended the school where my mom was a teacher. I got in the habit of leaving toys in the car so I could play with them ASAP after class. One time I left my Pound Puppy in the car and when I came out after school it was gone! Somebody broke into the car to steal a POUND PUPPY! Crazy times!
My Pound Puppy is in the closet in my old room at my mom’s house. I also had one of the “puppies,” though I have no idea what happened to it. The 80’s was chock-full of good toys that lasted longer than a few months and didn’t require a “sexy” factor.
Has Once Upon a Win done Teddy Roxbin (sp?) yet?
Teddy Ruxpin.
*GASP* Teddy Ruxpin! I had totally forgotten about him!
What kinda jerface are you where you will vote a Pound-Puppy down?!?!!? SAD!!!!
I have a Pound Puppy that my Grandpa gave me 22 years ago and I still keep it next to or on my bed. It’s gone with me everywhere I’ve ever lived and I’ll keep it that way until it disintegrates. My brother even ripped a hole between the eyes to pull the fuzz out of it (which I fixed right away, little weirdo kid) a good 13 years ago and it still sits there in one piece, keeping me happy.
OH BOY A POUND POOCHIE!!!
“Pills fall out”
Pound Puppies gave me my first experience of consumer rip-offs. Remember how you could send in $7 and get a custom made dog tag for your pound puppy? I saved up $7 from my allowance and sent it in and never got the tag. Bastards!
I had a Pound Puppies dog catcher truck that hauled ASS when you put the driver in his seat. I wasn’t sure why the puppies sat up front with the driver… but they did.
EPIC WIN. Pound Puppies = my childhood.
DON’T FORGET ABOUT POUND PURRIES!
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I had Puppies and Purries, and also Bunnies and Tigers. My sister and I were collecting the mini critters while we were collecting Beanie Babies. Our Pound Critters got to do everything… camping trips, wagon rides, cave exploring (under the bed), and we even had them attend school (where the Beanie Babies were the teachers).
That reminds me of when our Teenie Beanie Babies (the kind you got in McDonalds Happy Meals) had their own clubhouse lovingly constructed of cardboard, with secret passcodes logged in a tiny book for each member.
My sister and I had a LOT of time on our hands as kids!
Good times.
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Freakishly enough, my childhood was exactly the same.
That cartoon still airs on Boomerang. It’s pretty funny, but I never realized the plushies were so cute!
Why do I still remember the entire commercial?
Pound puppy, you were sad and lonely.
Brought you home, now you’re my one and only
Pound puppy, you’re my one and only puppy love.
OK, that just scares me.
oh god i still remember the day my folks brought me the puppy and i couldnt get it out of the box so i ripped the house apart. cried for days cause of the puppy being homeless, which of course didnt stop me from eating its nose cuting its ears or performing an appendectomy on it…i still have the puppy named ernesto (yes its tatooed on its back) 21 years and counting…i’m amazed from the amount of torture they can take…
I remember the first pound puppy commercial I saw, and it had the boy playing with a black one named Sparky, and after that I pestered my parents like crazy until they bought me one just like the one in the commercial, which I of course named Sparky. As a matter of fact, I still have him!
Ahhh, I had a few of these! loved them!
strange concept, exploiting a kid’s desire for a pet, they sell them a stuffed animal instead? not the same thing!
When I go through all my old stuff, I’ll have to keep an eye out for the two I had. I hope they haven’t disappeared